@financial-times/privacy-legislation-client

Privacy Legislation Client

What it is

A module that reports which legislative regimes apply in the user's current location.

Available for both server and client: see example

Usage

Typical usage would be to add the module to your app, call the imported method and then update the UI in line with any applicable legal requirements:

import getRegionalLegislation from "@financial-times/privacy-legislation-client";

function onPageLoad() {
  // `legislation` is a Set of the regionally-applicable laws
  const { legislation } = await getRegionalLegislation();

  if(legislation.has("ccpa")) {
    displayCCPALink()
  }

  if(legislation.has("gdpr")) {
    ...
  }
}

How it works

This module is a small wrapper over the Fetch API that hits https://ads-api.ft.com/privacy/v1/compliance-region.json, and exposes the comma-delimted response as a property called legislation in the form of a Set.

The abstraction allows us to change implementation details like the API's URL, version, etc. without impacting consumers

See the legislation-api for more details